4 Strategies To Remove Dead Code from your Ruby App | hexdevs

It’s easy to believe that just because a feature is available, it is going to be used someday. But let’s face it: some features in production will go completely unnoticed and unused forever, but you still have to maintain them. How much does it cost to carry all this dead code around?After all, to keep these pointless features running, the business has to spend time and money to:keep these features working (maintenance costs)test and deploy themadjust them so they can interact with other features and not cause bugsprovide user support and documentation.